EXCLUSIVE: A royal creator believes Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may flip his again on the UK – however to not the place many have speculated
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been tipped to go away the UK (Picture: Getty)
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may go away the UK for a stunning vacation spot after his fall from grace, a royal creator sensationally claims.
The previous Duke of York was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public workplace final week, earlier than being launched pending an investigation. It follows a sequence of damaging releases from the Epstein recordsdata that make clear his time as a UK Commerce Envoy in addition to his relations with intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew has persistently denied any wrongdoing.
After the continued scandals of the previous few months, which noticed Andrew’s royal titles eliminated and him being compelled out of Royal Lodge by brother King Charles, consultants speculated whether or not he might take refuge within the United Arab Emirates. Given his shut friendship with the emirate’s ruler, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, it might sound an apparent selection.
He had reportedly been provided using an opulent 16,000 sq ft, absolutely staffed, six-bedroom residence inside a safe diplomatic space by the Sheikh, and there he may count on a stage of privateness and deference which will now not be out there to him within the UK.
However now, the creator behind a biography that laid naked the secrets and techniques of the Yorks, has advised the disgraced royal may transfer someplace completely completely different.
Andrew Lownie has researched the previous prince’s life extensively (Picture: Getty)
Andrew Lownie advised The Specific that the UAE choice may not be out there to him, as a result of the Emirati rulers worth their relationship with King Charles and wouldn’t wish to endanger that. “If he have been to go to the Center East, they wouldn’t wish to upset the Royal Household,” he mentioned.
“He must go along with the [British] Royal Household’s approval – which if that have been identified can be very unpopular – as a result of their hyperlinks with the King are extra essential than their hyperlinks with Andrew.”
Whereas Bahrain doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the UK, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is “very near Charles”, Lownie says, and so he’s “not going to p*** him off”.
Andrew, then Duke of York, met with Chinese language President Xi Jinping (Picture: Getty)
However the disgraced royal may need a extra stunning different. Stressing that he can solely speculate at this level, Lownie advised us: “The opposite choice, as a result of he’s not going to go and be part of Assad in Moscow, is China.
Mountbatten-Windsor has “a number of enterprise actions” in China, Lownie factors out. He defined: “His former secretary Amanda Thirsk works for a Chinese language firm. He’s very near the Chinese language ambassador – when no-one went to his party a few years in the past, the Chinese language ambassador turned up.”
Lownie careworn that at current his China idea is pure hypothesis. “I’ve no proof of any of this besides my intuition,” he mentioned. “However that may be a spot he may go. He may get misplaced there, it might be an enormous ‘two fingers’ to Britain from Xi Jinping.”
Andrew has excessive profile contacts within the Center East, however there are obstacles to his transferring there (Picture: Getty)
Mountbatten-Windsor may “journey round” China with impunity, Lownie believes. He continued: “He may go and see his mates, go far and wide in a personal jet, however that may be a base.”
Mentioning that Mountbatten-Windsor’s passport has not been confiscated, Lownie added: “I believe he may go below the radar there [in China], in a manner that he couldn’t elsewhere.”
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